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Karpatian may 2010

In this year we went to a
traditional tour of Western Ukraine. In the direct train we went to
the spa town Truskavets. The train goes through
almost all of Ukraine, and after 20 hours we arrived in Truskavets.

We immediately went to
the park to the mineral waters. The park has two large
pump-room, and several sources.

Truskavets mineral
waters are very peculiar taste. In this region lies oil,
and water has flavor oil. Truskavets
mineral waters belong to a class of treatment for permanent use are not
suitable.We
decided that we had enough healthy, and be treated this water will not. We went to a nearby city - Borislav.

In 1772
Borislav became part of Austria-Hungary. Then
extract oil, gas, mineral wax. In 1968 he reached
maximum oil production 569 thousand tons per year.And in
our time in the city is actively being oil. Even
in the central park of the city are oil rigs. Even
outside of private homes are oil pumps. After
Borislav we went to a small town - Skhidnicya. The
village includes a large number of mineral springs. Try the local water, it looked like a Truskavets,
other sources of water are hydrogen sulfide, ferrous water, water type
Borjomi. Near
all sources should turn. Some can stand
for half an hour.

We
bought food at the store and went in the reserve - Tustan.Tustan
- Historical and Cultural Reserve, on whose territory the number of
rocks, which in ancient times were a fortress.Near
Tustan arranged accommodation, a tour of the remains of the
fortifications of Kievan Rus.

Tustan -
frontier fortress of Kievan Rus. It took the tax
for exported salt and other goods. The fortress
was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.

After we
went to Tustan Svaliava. In the most
Svalyava not available mineral sources. A
large number of mineral springs are located near the village Polana. Not
far from Svalyava, near the station Carpathians in the ancient castle
located resort Carpathians. The castle
belonged to the dynasty of graphs Shenborniv who owned these lands.

The castle is
in good condition. At the towers work
hour arrangements, flower beds in the courtyard, in the lake swans swim.After
the castle went into town Mukachevo. City quite
old, many beautiful buildings. In the
evening went to the very edge of the country to the village Vilok (Tisaulak). It is situated on the border with Hungary. At 200 meters from the border we camped for the
night.

The
border guard advised us a comfortable place to sleep, consult on border
issues. Near
the customs checkpoint is a monument Turkul.

Although
only the start of spring and the water is cold, I still bathed in the
river Tisza.

A few
hundred meters of the border passes through the center of the River. The next morning we drove into town Hust, which are
the ruins of an ancient castle that belonged to the family of Count
Dracula.

The
castle is situated on a lonely hill overlooking Hust. From the castle remained only a few walls, it is not
protected and there is almost no organized tours are conducted. From
the Justa we went to the last point of our visit to Transcarpathia - the
village Kvasy in which a many of mineral springs.

In the
village there are several sources of delicious mineral water, which
flows out of the ground already carbonation. We have
here a few beautiful days, went into the mountains, drinking mineral
water. Each time we return it there. This Carpathian village, I will devote a separate
article and organize tour of mineral springs in Transcarpathia.